Thursday, August 15, 2024
Faye Driscoll uses the ocean as her collaborator in a sunset dance celebrating the 10th anniversary of Beach Sessions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00AMSaturday, August 10, 2024
ROLL UP, ROLL UP… What sharper summer draw than “The Greatest Show On Earth” remembered within one of the smallest theatres? Jonathan O”Boyle’s production has the pre…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:49AMThursday, August 8, 2024
LAUNDRY, LECHERY, LADIES, LAUGHTER if anyone is ever so impertinent as to demand an audition piece from the RSC-seasoned John Hodgkinson, I suggest he delivers – with or witho…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:42PMDeborah McAndrew’s Bright Lights Over Bentilee recreates the local legend of a UFO sighting in the fields behind a housing estate in 1967
For residents of the Bentilee housing estate in St…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:41PMWednesday, August 7, 2024
A TALL TALE, A SHIMMERING MAGIC Of all Shakespeare’s plays this is now the rarest staged, not without reason: some early scenes are co- written with a contemporary John Wilkins, its tale i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:06PMTuesday, August 6, 2024
L’CHAIM ! THE VERY STUFF OF LIFE Of course it helps to be under a real sky: a lone fiddler high above the cornfield scratches out the first lonely notes against the evening clou…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:13PMMonday, August 5, 2024
Glaswegian, 44, says angioplasty was ‘shot across the bows’ and she will now swap Red Bull for hummus
A car breaking down when you’re hours away from an important Edinburgh fringe warm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:14PMCalvin Leon Smith will return to Broadway this fall as Clifford Bradshaw in Cabaret. He takes over the role from original cast member Ato Blankson-Wood, who plays his final performance at …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PMRachid Ouramdane, who presented a major new dance as part of the Cultural Olympiad, directs the Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris. How does he do it all?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01AMWednesday, July 31, 2024
Mainly male audience members had to step out of preview performance of The Years after graphic scene
An award-winning play premiering in London had to be stopped for 10 minutes during a prev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMTuesday, July 30, 2024
Saturday, July 27, 2024
Duke Theseus offers instructions, Act 1 Scene 1. “Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments, Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth!” You can tru…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:01AMThursday, July 25, 2024
AS LONG AS WE NEED IT… To do a timeworn musical, entangled in all- too -familiar earworms, you can either sharpen, challenge and update it or lovingly polish the old machine. If you s…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:27PMWednesday, July 24, 2024
Ageism standing in way of older writers breaking into the industry, playwrights claim
The phrase “emerging playwright” should not be restricted to those under the age of 40, leading UK t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMMonday, July 22, 2024
Queen, his biggest show to date, opens in Liverpool and features new commissions of the city’s drag performers
As a child, Magnus Hastings loved stealing his sister’s clothes and wearing…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMSaturday, July 20, 2024
In this new package, our arts team explores how much Seattle artists make, how they afford life in the city, what could help and more.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMFriday, July 19, 2024
Of the new musicals slated for the 2024-25 Broadway season, Redwood has the greatest air of mystery. It’s a brand-new title with a brand-new score, and not only brings Tony winner Idina Me…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:42PMUP WHERE SHE BELONGS Imelda Staunton is a marvel, from Mama Rose in Gypsy to HMQ in The Crown. There is no lady of the stage more worthy of being greeted at the top of a Grand Staircase b…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:23AMGRISLY GLEE If there is any aspect of 21c Western culture sorely in need of being laughed at, it s ithe morbid fascination with police-procedural telly,, especially true-crime and i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:38AMThursday, July 18, 2024
Organizations in Seattle and elsewhere are trying to address the affordability crisis for artists with programs tackling basic income, affordable housing and more.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMAN OVEN-READY MUSICAL, NEVER MUFFIN A MOMENT As summer heats the merciless city, good to know that five minutes’ south of London Bridge station is La France Profonde, a village …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:40AMWednesday, July 17, 2024
Manager ‘was everything we didn’t have in our politics’, insists James Graham as he rewrites ending of play
The playwright James Graham has paid tribute to the outgoing England footbal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMMonday, July 15, 2024
A new immersive piece of theater from the producers of “Sleep No More” transports visitors to the Gilded Age through a retrofitted skyscraper in Manhattan.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AMThursday, July 11, 2024
FOMO is a familiar feeling for theater fans. But of course, it's impossible to catch everything—or to even know what's unmissable until you've already missed it. Fortunately, New York City…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:02PMWednesday, July 10, 2024
GEORGIANS IN THE PINK, AND SOMEWHAT PUNK Sheridan’s social satire from the 1770s hits the age of fake news, viral reputation-trashing and post-imperial embarrassment. …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:30AMThursday, July 4, 2024
ON THE EVE OF THE ELECTION…. …I emerged onto the Cut in a grey afternoon blinking tears, unable to process having been made to cry by James Corden. He’s been for me a fig…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:53PMChildren’s experiences form basis of play that weaves 150 years of care system history into narrative
When theatre-makers Matt Woodhead and Helen Monks gathered with a small group of child…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32AMTEENAGE DREAMS, AND FAME AS NIGHTMARE Got to love the dedication of the Southwark: to mark its smaller-space production of Samantha Hurley’s New York play about a demented teenage fan, it …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:53AMWednesday, July 3, 2024
A THING OF WONDER People who saw Mnemonic at its origin 25 years ago still talk about it. A few say it changed them. It was a collaborative, at first wholly unscripted , creatio…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:05AMTuesday, July 2, 2024
A WARTIME SPRINGTIME It’s not the reptile but the turtledove, as in the Song of Solomon “The time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our l…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:04PMFriday, June 28, 2024
There’s more to New York theater than Broadway—particularly right now, in the collective exhalation of the post-Tonys period. In our new column, Broadway.com will highlight the extraordi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:36AM 
